do money turtles produce a year? Money turtles can produce 2-18 eggs a year, depending on the number of times they lay eggs. Money turtles usually lay eggs 1-2 times a year, each time laying 1-9 eggs, an average of 3.6 eggs at a time. Money turtles usually mate at dusk in autumn, and then begin to lay eggs from May to September of the next year, especially from June to July, which is the peak period of laying eggs. Female money turtles come ashore in the evening to lay eggs. They usually choose the riverside or under the roots of trees. They will dig a pit 7-10 cm deep and 5-6 cm in diameter in the place where they lay eggs. The eggs are then laid inside, and after that, the limbs and plastrons bury the eggs before leaving.
the eggs laid by money turtles needs to control the temperature, humidity and incubation medium. First of all, the incubation medium, in different incubation media, hatching rate and incubation cycle will be very different. For example, depending on the natural soil and environment, the fertilization rate is only 50.9%, if replaced by fine sand incubation, the success rate of incubation can be increased to about 83.3%.
The second is the temperature, the temperature of incubation will affect their sex, if the temperature of incubation is 26 degrees Celsius, then most of the hatched turtles are male, if the temperature is 30 degrees Celsius, most of the hatched turtles are female. Finally, the humidity of sand needs to be controlled at 5% -10%, and the humidity of air needs to be controlled at 80% -90%.
